MZFCollection2590.xml Guide to the Kenneth W. Karsmizki Research Papers1867-2000 Karsmizki (Kenneth W.) Research Papers Kim Allen Scott, 2014 Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition) Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Collection 2590, MtBC, us Karsmizki, Kenneth W. Kenneth W. Karsmizki Research Papers 1867-2000 7 linear feet The Kenneth W. Karsmizki Research Papers contains files pertaining to Fort Ellis, Missouri River steamboats (in and out of Montana), Yellowstone National Park, Lewis and Clark, and a variety of Karsmizki’s reports on various research projects. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

Kenneth W. Karsmizki was born on April 24th, 1948. Karsmizki enrolled in the United Sates Navy and served from 1966-1968. Afterword, Karsmizki attended Purdue University receiving his B.A in philosophy in 1979. Shortly after, in 1981, Karsmizki continued his academic career receiving a M.A in history from Montana State University. After receiving his M.A, Karsmizki served as the curator of history at the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University where he worked until 1999. During this time Karsmizki was undergoing research and collecting data over various topics such as Fort Ellis, steamboats, Yellowstone National Park, and Lewis and Clark. Karsmizki was also publishing a large amount of material including articles, essays, and reports. Karsmizki was very interested in Lewis and Clark and spent a lot of time locating their campsites. His research has been used in documentaries presented on the Discovery Channel. After leaving his position at the Museum of the Rockies, Karsmizki moved to The Dalles Oregon where he worked at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum until his retirement in 2007.

The Karsmizki collection contains 7 linear feet of files pertaining to Fort Ellis, Missouri River steamboats (in and out of Montana), Yellowstone National Park, Lewis and Clark, and a variety of Karsmizki’s reports on various research projects. The bulk of this collection consists National Archives reproductions with occasional annotations from Karsmizki. The collection includes various contemporary records generated by the Fort Ellis garrison, the army contingent in charge of Yellowstone National Park, and notes, photocopies, and other materials dealing with the Lewis and Clark expedition, Missouri River steamboat wrecks and sinkings, and a wide variety of research reports Karsmizki composed while on assignment for projects sponsored by the Museum of the Rockies and other agencies. Audiocassette tapes documenting a speech Karsmizki made at the January 24, 1980 meeting of the Gallatin County Historical Society regarding the Lewis and Clark Caverns, and oral history interviews conducted with Mary B. Tallman, Mary Brook Brickson, and Mazie Mitchell Wolverton have also been included with this collection. A typed transcription of the interviews, which concern the Lewis and Clark Caverns, teaching at Homestake, Montana, and the Montana Civilian Conservation Corps accompany the tapes. The materials have been arranged by broad topics and files are alphabetically sorted.

This collection is open for research.

Files pertaining to Fort Ellis, steamboats, Yellowstone, Lewis and Clark, and Karsmizki’s reports created or collected by Kenneth W. Karsmizki. Items were donated to Special Collection by Mr. Karsmizki in December, 2014. Accessions formerly designated collections 1287 and 1327 have been incorporated into this collection.

This collection was processed 2014 April 3

 Elementary and Secondary Education Expeditions and Adventure National Parks Ships and Shipping Transportation Montana Fort Ellis Files 1/1 Application for permit 1991 1/2 Archeological dig notes #1 1/3 Archeological dig notes #2 1/4 Archeological dig notes #3 1/5 Archeological dig notes #4 1/6 Archeological dig notes #5 1/7 Archeological dig notes #6 1/8 Archeological dig notes #7 1/9 Archeological dig notes #8 1/10 Archeological dig notes #9 1/11 Archeological dig notes #10 1/12 Archeological dig notes #11 1/13 Archeological dig notes #12 1/14 Archeological dig notes #13 1/15 Archeological dig notes #13 1/16 Archeological dig notes #15 1/17 Archeological dig notes #16 1/18 Archeological dig notes #17 1/19 Artifacts donated 1/20 Correspondence about John Bozeman’s Death 1911 1/21 Demortets Monthly Magazine October 1885 1/22 Endorsements, building reports, Miscellaneous National Archives reproductions 1/23 Excavation object information 1/24 Excavation A – Fort Ellis 1/25 Fort Ellis Bridge – Geographical survey 1999 1/26 Fort Ellis: CTEP Interim Report 1/27 Fort Ellis – Inventory 1/28 Fort Ellis: Using the Historical Record to Relocate the Old Fort Site 1/29 Hand written notes of sick and wounded register at Fort Elli 1/30 Historical Archeology 1990 1/31 31. Historical notes from the Museum of The Rockies – Letter from Custer Battlefield 1876 1/32 History of Fort Ellis 1931 1/33 Hospital Records 1829 1/34 Laundresses Reports and Information 1/35 Maps of Fort Ellis 1/36 Magnetometer 1991

Fort Ellis - Notes correspondence etc.

 1/37 Magnetometer 1992

Fort Ellis - Notes correspondence etc.

 1/38 Magnetometer 1992

continued- Fort Ellis - Notes correspondence etc.

 1/39 Magnetometer 1992

continued- Fort Ellis - Notes correspondence etc.

 1/40 A Magnetometer Search for Fort Ellis – John Weymouth and Ken Karsmizki 1/41 Miscellaneous Fort Ellis research 1/42 Miscellaneous National archives information and Articles 1/43 Miscellaneous Research 1/44 Museum of the Rockies – Annual report 1981-1982 1/45 National Archives record groups 1/46 National register of historic places inventory – Nomination form 1/47 Notes, Reminders, etc. 1994 1/48 NPRR Survey 1/49 Other Fort research 1/50 Other Fort Research Continued 1/51 Photos – Folder #1 1/52 Photos – Folder #2 1/53 Photos – Folder #3 1/54 Photos – Folder #4 1/55 Photos – Folder #5 1/56 Photos – Folder #6 1/57 Photos – Folder #7 1/58 Post Correspondence – Karsmizki pagination #1-20 1/59 Post Correspondence – Karsmizki pagination #21-41 1/60 Post Correspondence – Karsmizki pagination #42-52 1/61 Post Correspondence – Karsmizki pagination #53-72 1/62 Post Correspondence – Karsmizki pagination #75-95 1/63 Post Correspondence – Kasmizki pagination #96-113 1/64 Post Correspondence – Karsmizki pagination #121-141 1/65 Post Correspondence – Karsmizki pagination #142-157 1/66 Post Correspondence – Karsmizki pagination #164-187 1/67 Proposal 1988 1/68 Proposal – Documents and Information 2/1 Quarter Master Returns 2/2 Quarter Master Correspondence #1 2/3 Quarter Master Correspondence #2 2/4 Quarter Master Correspondence #3 2/5 Record of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 2/6 Record of the month of May 1872 2/7 Register of sick and wounded 1867 2/8 Register of sick and wounded 1868 2/9 Register of sick and wounded 1869 2/10 Register of sick and wounded 1873 2/11 Register of sick and wounded 1874 3/1 Register of sick and wounded 1878 3/2 Register of sick and wounded 1883 3/3 Register of sick and wounded, miscellaneous 3/4 Record Group Fort Ellis, MT, Miscellaneous Fort File 3/5 Report of Buildings 3/6 Research design 1991 3/7 Research design 1992 3/8 Searching for Fort Ellis: A Magnetometer Survey 3/9 Structural Drawings/Findings 3/10 “The Fort that guarded Bozeman” 1867–1886 3/11 The Historical record, Magnetometer and Archeological Testing 3/12 The Military 1804–1905

Statewide

 3/13 U.S. Army Continental Commands 1821–1920 Missouri and Yellowstone River Steamboat Files 4/1 Annual Report – Chief of Engineers Improvement of Missouri and Yellowstone 4/2 Benton Log 1880 4/3 Bertrand Museum 4/4 Bill Gray 4/5 Bismarck Tribune 4/6 Boat Style – notes 4/7 Boonville Weekly Advocate – Mark Twain’s Last trip as Pilot 4/8 Briggs, Harold E. “Pioneer River Transport in Dakota” 4/9 Chitteniden, H.M. – wreck list 4/10 Cincinnati 4/11 Clayton, Watchman Advocate 4/12 Collection 925 – J. S. Mendenhall 4/13 Commerce of Missouri 4/14 Commerce of Missouri 4/15 Cor. Macleod 4/16 Corps of Engineers 4/17 Data Base 4/18 Data Base Folder #2 4/19 Data Base MT Steam Boat Wrecks 4/20 E.B. Trail Collection – Kansas City Public Library 4/21 Fort Benton Record 4/22 Helena Weekly Herald 4/23 “Improvement of Missouri River” 4/24 James E. Rankin 4/25 J. Don Cameron – House Report No. 476 4/26 Joseph Leighton and Capt. E.B Gibbs – Articles of Agreement 4/27 Kansa City National Archives 4/28 Kansa City National Archives Wreck List 4/29 Lamme, E.B. 4/30 Lamme Photo Collection Inventory 4/31 Lass, William E. – Missouri River Steam boating 4/32 Lass, William E. – Steam Boats on the Yellowstone 4/33 Library of Congress 4/34 Log of Henry M. Shrene- To Fort Benton in 1869 4/35 Log of Shreveport 4/36 Maurice A. Lamme, Biographic 4/37 Minnesota History Center 4/38 Miscellaneous research articles 4/39 Miscellaneous River Maps 4/40 Miscellaneous Steamboat Wrecks 4/41 Miscellaneous Publications 4/42 Missouri Historical Society 4/43 Missouri Historical Society – Newspapers 4/44 Missouri River Maps 4/45 Missouri River Steamboats 4/46 Missouri Steamboat Wreck list 4/47 Montana Historical Society Newspapers 4/48 Montana Magazine of History 4/49 Montana Maps 4/50 MSU Challenge 4/51 Murphy Library Card File 4/52 Murphy library – La Bosse 4/53 National Maritime Initiative 4/54 Osceola 4/55 Overholser – Arrivals at Fort Benton 4/56 Overholser Collections 4/57 Overholser Joel F. “Improvement of Missouri River as Waterway Finished Four Years after…” (1939) 4/58 Quiatt, Action B 4/59 Partoll, Albert J. “Lieutenant C. Grover Surveyed Missouri for Navigation in 1853” 4/60 Red Cloud 4/61 Report of Expedition On Yellowstone River 4/62 Resources of Waterway Transportation 4/63 River Locations 4/64 Root, Georgia – Ferries in Kansas 4/65 Ruth 4/66 Sample Wreck Report 4/67 Schrock, Hayward D. – Steamboat 4/68 Schultz, J. Willard – Floating on the Missouri 4/69 Senate Ex Doc – Indian Goods Lost 4/70 Senate Ex. Doc – Congress 2d session 4/71 SHA Conference – January 2001 4/72 SHA – Steamboat 4/73 Snag boats and the Removal of obstructions on the Missouri 4/74 Statement of Calvin Case 4/75 Steamboat Data Base 4/76 Steamboat enrollment 4/77 Steamboat Photos 4/78 Steamboat Store 4/79 Steamer Manifest 4/80 Steam Vessels Inspected (1885) 4/81 St. Louis area collections 4/82 St. Louis Mercantile Library 4/83 University of Missouri-Columbia 4/84 Up the Missouri in 76 4/85 Up the Missouri in 76 #2 4/86 U.S. Inspector certificate 4/87 Viola Clark 4/88 Ways – Marked Copy 4/89 Wood, Garvey 4/90 Yellowstone Navigation History 4/91 Yellowstone River Guide – A. G. LA Barge 5/1 Steamboat Wrecks – A’s folder #1 – A.B – American 5/2 Steamboat Wrecks – A’s folder #2 – American – Avalanche 5/3 Steamboat Wrecks – B’s folder #1 – B.A Douglas – Benton 5/4 Steamboat Wrecks – B’s folder #2 – Bertha – Bob 5/5 Steamboat Wrecks – B’s folder #3 – Bon – Butte 5/6 Steamboat Wrecks – C’s folder #1 – C.C – Challenge 5/7 Steamboat Wrecks – C’s folder #2 – Chamberlin – City 5/8 Steamboat Wrecks – C’s folder #3 – City – Columbiana 5/9 Steamboat Wrecks – C’s folder #4 – Commander – Cumberland 5/10 Steamboat Wrecks – D’s folder #1 – D.A – Decatur 5/11 Steamboat Wrecks – D’s folder #2 – Deer - Durock 5/12 Steamboat Wrecks – E’s folder #1 – E.A – Express 5/13 Steamboat Wrecks – F’s folder #1 – F.F – Frolic 5/14 Steamboat Wrecks – G’s folder #1 – G.M – General 5/15 Steamboat Wrecks – G’s folder #2 – General – Gus 5/16 Steamboat Wrecks – H’s folder #1 – H.C – Henry 5/17 Steamboat Wrecks –H’s folder #2 – Henry – Huron 5/18 Steamboat Wrecks – I’s folder #1 – IDA – I. R 5/19 Steamboat Wrecks – J’s folder #1 – Jacob – Joe 5/20 Steamboat Wrecks – J’s folder #2 – Joe – Junius 5/21 Steamboat Wrecks – K’s folder #1 – Kansas – Kit 5/22 Steamboat Wrecks – L’s folder #1 – Laclede – Lillie 5/23 Steamboat Wrecks – L’s folder #2 – Lillie – Lynchburg 5/24 Steamboat Wrecks – M’s folder #1 – M. Livingston – Mary E. 5/25 Steamboat Wrecks – M’s folder #2 – Mary H. – Missouri 5/26 Steamboat Wrecks – M’s folder #3 – Missouri – Mustang 5/27 Steamboat Wrecks – N’s folder #1 – N.J – Nymph 5/28 Steamboat Wrecks – O’s folder #1 – O.K – Osceola 5/29 Steamboat Wrecks – P’s folder #1 – P.T – Pilot 5/30 Steamboat Wrecks – P’s folder #2 – Pin - Princess 5/31 Steamboat Wrecks – Q’s folder #1 – Quart Boat #9 – Queen 5/32 Steamboat Wrecks – R’s folder #1 – R.J – Ruth 5/33 Steamboat Wrecks – S’s folder #1 – S.B – Sioux 5/34 Steamboat Wrecks – S’s folder #2 – Sni – Swan 5/35 Steamboat Wrecks – T’s folder #1 – T.L – Tyler 5/36 Steamboat Wrecks – U’s folder #1 – U.S – Urilda 5/37 Steamboat Wrecks – V’s folder #1 – Valley – Virginia 5/38 Steamboat Wrecks – W’s folder #1 – W.A – Wenona 5/39 Steamboat Wrecks – W’s folder #2 – Wenona – Wiota 5/40 Steamboat Wrecks – Y’s and Z’s folder #1 – Yankton – Zephyr Oral History and Public Speech 5/41 41. Talks: Lewis and Clark Caverns speech, 1980

on CD

 5/42 Talks: Lewis and Clark Caverns speech, 1980

on Tape

 5/43 Talks: Oral history interviews on CD 5/44 Talks: Oral history interviews on Tape 5/45 Talks: Transcribed Interviews Yellowstone National Park Files 6/1 Acting super intendant of Yellowstone correspondence 6/2 Adjutant General – reports, correspondence, etc. 6/3 Alcoholism – Yellowstone soldier station 6/4 Alcoholism – Yellowstone Soldier Station – Folder #2 6/5 Alcoholism – Yellowstone Soldier Station – Folder #3 6/6 Animals – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/7 Annual reports – Department of the Interior 6/8 Armament 6/9 Buildings – Yellowstone 6/10 Camp Popular River 6/11 Clothing – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/12 Deserters – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/13 Discipline – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/14 Discipline – Yellowstone Soldier Station – Folder #2 6/15 Doane, G. 6/16 Entry 27 – Summary of Courts Martialed 6/17 Fish, E.I. - letters 6/18 Forest Fires – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/19 Fort Yellowstone – Miscellaneous Correspondence 6/20 Fort Yellowstone – Miscellaneous Correspondence - File #2 6/21 Fort Yellowstone – Miscellaneous Correspondence - File #3 6/22 Fort Yellowstone – Miscellaneous Correspondence - File #4 6/23 Fort Yellowstone Regimental Returns 6/24 Gardner – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/25 General Order – 87 – 1898 6/26 Habits of the men – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/27 Hotels – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/28 Inspections – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/29 List of References – Yellowstone 6/30 Lower Geyser Basin – Letters (YNP Archives) 6/31 Mammoth, Hot Springs – Yellowstone, WYO. 6/32 Miscellaneous – Yellowstone Soldier Station 6/33 Miscellaneous – Yellowstone Soldier Station – File #2 6/34 Miscellaneous – Yellowstone Soldier Station – File #3 6/35 Miscellaneous – Yellowstone Soldier Station – File #4 7/1 Miscellaneous Reports – Yellowstone 7/2 Miscellaneous Reports – Yellowstone – File #2 7/3 Miscellaneous – Yellowstone Files 7/4 Muster – Yellowstone Soldier Station 7/5 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-11 – Part 1 7/6 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-11 – Part 2 7/7 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-11 – Part 3 7/8 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-11 – Part 4 7/9 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-11 – Part 5 7/10 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-11 – Part 6 7/11 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-11 – Part 7 7/12 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-11 – Part 7 continued 7/13 Parks, Reservation and Antiquities – File # 12-12-31 – Part 1 7/14 Pendell , Lucille H. and Elizabeth Bethal – Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Adjutant General 7/15 Post History – Yellowstone Soldier Station 7/16 Quarter Master – Reports, Correspondence, etc. 7/17 Record of Summary of the Court – Fort Yellowstone 7/18 Regulations – Yellowstone Soldier Station 7/19 Roads in Yellowstone Park 7/20 Sick and Wounded – Yellowstone Soldier Station 7/21 Snake River Soldier Station – Pictures 7/22 Soda Butte Station – 1897 7/23 Soldier Station Monthly Report – Tower Falls 7/24 Soldier Station – Photos 7/25 Subject Index to the General Orders and Circulars of the War Department – 1860-1880 7/26 Subject Search – Yellowstone National Park 7/27 Telephone Wires – Yellowstone Soldier Station 7/28 Transportation – Yellowstone Soldier Station 7/29 Troop Movement – RG393 7/30 Troop Movement – Yellowstone Soldier Station 7/31 Troop Movement – Yellowstone Soldier Station – File #2 7/32 Troop Movement – Yellowstone Soldier Station – File #3 7/33 Troop Movement – Yellowstone Soldier Station – File #4 8/1 Vest – Senate Report #911 – Yellowstone National Park Agreements 8/2 Weather – Yellowstone soldier station 8/3 Wind cave National Park 8/4 Yellowstone 1996

– Notes

 8/5 5. Yellowstone Park Association – 1886/1896 8/6 Yellowstone – RG 94 – Adjutant General 8/7 Yellowstone – Secretary of the Interior Senate Ex. Doc 10 – Agreements 8/8 Yellowstone Senate – Ex. Doc 8/9 Yellowstone Slides 8/10 YNP Annual report 8/11 YNPA Documents 1904 8/12 YNPA Documents 1905 8/13 YNPA Documents 1906 8/14 YNPA Documents 1907 8/15 YNPA Documents 1908 8/16 YNPA Documents 1909 8/17 YNPA Documents 1910 8/18 YNPA Documents 1903 8/19 YNP – FSS Photos 8/20 YNPA – letters sent 8/21 YNP – Rules, Regulations and Instructions Project Reports 9/1 1900 Caldwell Residential Property Survey 9/2 The 1994 Geoarcheological Assessment of the Merrell Locality – Centennial Valley, Southwest Montana 9/3 Archeological Investigations at the Lamar Buffalo Ranch 9/4 Archeological Investigations in the Swan Lake Flats Area 9/5 Archeological Inventory – Seven County Study Area Northwestern Montana 9/6 Bannack Historical Archeology 1987 - Kenneth W. Karsmizki 9/7 Bannack Historical Archeology 1987 - Kenneth W. Karsmizki and Joan Louise Brownell 9/8 Canyon Area – Haynes Architectural Photography 9/9 Charrette Participant Book 9/10 Centennial Mall – Charrette Information 9/11 Centennial Mall 9/12 Donnelly Charrette 9/13 Donnelley Project – Charrette Information Book 9/14 The Donnelley Project 9/15 Experiences in the Big Hole and Southwestern Montana – Selected Manuscripts 9/16 Flood Plain Archeology at the Holmes Terrace Site – Fergus County, MT 9/17 Fountain Soldier Station – Report of Research and Mitigation – Volume #3 9/18 Historic Properties Cultural Resource Inventory – Park County, Montana 9/19 Historic Properties Cultural Resource Inventory – Powder River County, Montana 9/20 Historic Properties Cultural Resource Inventory – in Roosevelt County, Montana 9/21 Ketterer Stable: Adaptive Reuse, New Construction 9/22 The KXGN Butte Occupation Site, Makoshika State Park, Lower Yellowstone Badlands 9/23 Soda Butte Soldier Station – Artifacts 9/24 Soda Butte Soldier Station – Report of Research and Testing 9/25 South Fork of the Smith Rivers: Historic Cultural Resources Adjacent to U.S. Highway 89 9/26 Surveying Montana’s Public Domain: The First Step in the Land Patenting Process 9/27 Suspected Site of the Hobert Hotel – Report of Research and Testing 9/28 Tinsley Homestead Project – Restoration